DTIC ADA1031543: Logistics Managers Need to Consider pdf

DTIC ADA1031543: Logistics Managers Need to Consider

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Maintaining a safety level of stock on hand is a form of insurance against unexpected demands or delays in delivery. However, the methods used for determining safety levels do not consider whether the items are essential to carry out a military mission. Inventory management activities increase their effectiveness by ensuring that, within budgetary constraints, sufficient safety levels of low-cost, high-demand items are available to meet demands. However, these items are not necessarily those needed to maintain a high level of readiness. GAO believes that operational readiness should be the prime objective of logistics managers, as well as those responsible for maintaining a ready force, and makes a number of recommendations aimed at making this objective the guiding factor in the requirements determination process

• Creator/s: Defense Technical Information Center
• Date: 8/10/1981
• Year: 1981
• Book Topics/Themes: DTIC Archive, , GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC PROCUREMENT LOGISTICS AND READINESS DIV, *LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT, *MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND CONTROL, *OPERATIONAL READINESS, *SUPPLIES, COST ANALYSIS, INVENTORY CONTROL, LEAD TIME, MILITARY PROCUREMENT, MILITARY REQUIREMENTS, PEACETIME, STOCKPILES, WARFARE

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